Playboard

THE PLAYBOARD Puppet Theatre did many things (most famously BUTTON MOON), but started off on Sunday morning BBC1 with this effort. PLAYBOARD featured a mole and a hedgehog (Mo and Hedge respectively), and, the horror, CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP. The story involved the pair trudging through miles of fake turf (puppeteers operated them from gulleys below) to get to a circus/funfair tent, watch an act, then piss off home. Lillicrap being Lillicrap, a song was worked unsubtly into the show.

I loved this show too and will often sing the lillicrap version of the Little Red Hen song to my family members when they won’t get off their backsides to help me. Mind you, it doesn’t get me a bolt hole in the Greek islands like it did for Christopher.